Maggie Nickson

Maggie Nickson

@maggie-nickson.bsky.social

Animal lover/skeptic/realist/minimalist/nullifidian. Believing doesn't make it true. I might be a nihilist. Memento Mori. Is he dead yet?

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America, this guy is a liar.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."

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This guy is a Kennedy? An ignorant racist. By the way, Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer, won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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The United Nations of Canine Diplomacy has convened and everyone is introducing themselves the polite way.

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Wow Kansas. $8 billion the other day from Trump and now millions more. Amazing how all these wonderful things for the people are announced the same day as a rally. Magic 🪄 🙄🙄😒

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Today, the Dept of Agriculture is announcing millions of dollars in new grants toward 10 meatpacking facilities right here in the state of Kansas"

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But Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke was out of touch.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims the billion+ dollars he's spending on White House renovations is "peanuts"

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Feels like a metaphor for Elon Musk

the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social

In July, an incensed Elon Musk vowed that Grok Imagine would produce a "full-length" and "historically accurate" adaptation of Homer's Odyssey to put Christopher Nolan's woke version to shame. Three months later, we got seven minutes of slop that Grok itself admits is not historically accurate.

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I like this season's Document collection. Document is a Korean menswear brand that used to do minimalist-styled clothing that leaned heavily into distinctive silhouettes, although this season feels more heritage-y. In the US, they are carried at No Man Walks Alone and Namu Shop.

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I could ask why the Catholic archbishops were there in the first place, camera or no camera. I could, but I don't need to. It's called PEDOPHILIA

Remember the Catholic archbishops praying over Trump? The White House duped them into posing then sent out the video they didn’t know was being recorded without their knowledge. apnews.com/article/dona...

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Fuck that, and I DGAF where you’re from, you can’t be a good person and vote for anything Republican. Explain to me why I’m wrong.

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“A second set of nearly identical red signs are scattered across the district, only these show Flores with Trump giving a thumbs-up, sandwiched between the declarations “Trump endorsed” and “Support ice!” When I first saw these signs, I did a double take” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.comLosing the ‘Big-Ass Truck’ VoteDonald Trump won big in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley in 2024—but now Latino voters are turning on him.

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“It is rare for people to turn down free money from the government. But that’s what happens when a polarizing president attaches his name to a taxpayer-supported program originally pitched as a vehicle to help America’s children achieve financial security.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.comSome Parents Are Rejecting Trump’s Free MoneyThe greatest obstacle to widespread acceptance of the Trump Accounts program may be embedded in its very name.

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Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.